From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 94 The Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Conference is Crazy
Even Viana, who has no research on number theory, has heard of Mersenne prime numbers.

There are too many well-known figures in history who have studied Mersenne primes, not to mention Euclid and Mersenne, including Fermat, Gauss, Goldbach, etc., but they all failed in this up.

Of course, after all, these mathematicians were people a long time ago. The mathematical tools they could use at that time were far less than they are now, and their research on mathematics was not as convenient as it is in modern times. They did not have the Internet at that time. What sites like ArXiv allow them to search for all the papers in the world.

It is precisely because of this that there were so many great mathematicians at the beginning, because they almost relied on their own research to lead the take-off development of mathematics in the world, and they were all omnipotent in their own era. mathematician.

But now, the discipline of mathematics is becoming more and more refined, and a lot of new mathematics have appeared. It is said that the algebraic geometry created by the mathematics emperor Grothendieck is enough for current mathematicians to study it for a lifetime, let alone there are still Those things used in Lin Xiao's research.

For example, group theory was created by Galvalo more than ten years after the death of Gauss. As for modular form theory, it did not appear until the end of the nineteenth century, and it gradually matured after the twentieth century.

Therefore, it cannot be said that Lin Xiao solved this problem, which means that he is better than those masters, just because he has more mathematical tools. As Newton said, "I am standing on the side of giants." shoulders".

Although when Newton said this sentence, he was actually mocking a mathematician named Hooke...

Marcelo Viana looked at the title, surprised at first, but then frowned.

"But, I remember that the paper he should publish has something to do with the Fibonacci sequence? What's wrong with it? How did it become a Mersenne prime number?"

How can such an important achievement be presented at the International Congress of Mathematicians without careful and rigorous review?
Moreover, there are still more than half a month left!

"My God, this is messing with me!"

Marcelo Viana scratched his hair until finally, he gritted his teeth, "Forget it, send it to Professor Sanak first, let him take a look."

"However, that young man from Huaguo, you'd better not have too many problems. If you want to stand out at the International Conference of Mathematicians, you must first ensure that you will not make mistakes, otherwise, the conference will only prevent you from falling It's a laughing stock."

After reading this sentence silently, he then sent this paper to Peter Sarnak. As a member of the International Mathematical Union, Professor Sarnak is also obliged to undertake the review work.

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Princeton University, Fine-Hall.

The office of Professor Peter Sarnak.

Peter Sarnak was the winner of the Wolf Mathematics Prize who reviewed Lin Xiao's paper on the prime number problem of the Fibonacci sequence. At this time, he was reviewing the manuscript. It's also his job.

But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that he had received a message from the International Congress of Mathematicians.

"Huh? Is it from Professor Wiana, the chairman of this conference?"

Seeing the news that it was the chairman of the organizing committee of the conference, he did not neglect, stopped his work, and then opened the message to read it.

Soon, he knew the purpose of Professor Wiana's visit.

"Lin Xiao just submitted the report manuscript now?"

Upon hearing the news, Professor Sanak couldn't help being taken aback.

Now there is only more than half a month left before the start of the conference, but that Lin Xiao submitted the report?

At the beginning, he offered to ask Lin Xiao to come and give a report. After all, it is rare for a prime number problem to be solved. It is obviously a gratifying thing for workers in the field of number theory, so other professors did not refuse.

Of course, he also had the same mentality of supporting the young mathematician and hoping to get to know Lin Xiao.

However, a month has passed now, did Lin Xiao just sort out the papers now?
This time is a bit slow.

However, he shook his head again, no matter what, just submit it, even if it's a little late, it doesn't matter.

Then he downloaded the file sent by Chairman Wiana.

However, after opening the file, he couldn't help being stunned.

"Group transformation method? And the distribution law of Mersenne prime numbers... What is this? Did he use the modular form in his original paper? Didn't he use polynomial transformation?"

Professor Sanak first wondered if this was the Lin Xiao, but after looking at the signature of the paper, it was indeed 'Lin-Xiao'.

Then he wondered if his memory was messed up.

Squeezing his head, he took the cup from the side, took a sip of the coffee in it, and cheered up a little.

Then, he turned his attention to the summary.

After reading the summary, his eyes widened, and he took another sip of coffee to suppress his shock.

Then he looked at the page numbers again. There were 78 pages in total.

The coffee he just drank suddenly choked.

"Cough cough cough..."

In the room, his graduate students couldn't help asking: "Professor, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Sanak patted his chest, and when he felt comfortable, he frowned tightly and looked at the thesis on the computer.

Until the last wry smile.

This Lin Xiao really brought him a 'surprise'.

But this 'surprise' was given to him separately, what he received now was 'surprise', and now he hoped that he could successfully receive the second half of 'happy'.

It's just that he has to wait until he reads the paper to know.

"It really gave me a problem."

78 pages, can you finish it in 45 minutes?
Sighing, he didn't rush to read it directly, because the paper was too long and the conclusion was too amazing, he needed to find some mathematician friends to read it together.

And who are his mathematician friends?

"See Pierre Deligne?"

Well, this is a Fields Medal winner, a tenured fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

"Where's Bulgan? But he probably doesn't have time."

This is also a Fields Medal winner.

"Or find Lang Lanz? But he is in Turkey now, and he doesn't know what he's doing all day long."

This is the grand unified theory of mathematics, the proposer of the Langlands program.

"Pompielli is still traveling in Europe, and he probably won't come until the Mathematicians Conference starts."

"Forget it, just find Deligne, he should have nothing to do recently."

After confirming who he was looking for, Sanak contacted that Professor Deligne, sent the paper over, and then read the paper himself.

(End of this chapter)